Staff Backend Engineer – Submission Processing

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• We seek engineers who are passionate about tackling challenging problems and taking full ownership of outcomes from start to finish.

• As a Staff Engineer on the Submission Processing team, you will operate at the crossroads of AI and backend engineering, wielding significant ownership and influence: designing systems, making architectural decisions amidst uncertainty, and playing a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of the team.

• You will focus on developing and scaling LLM-based systems that manage billions of highly unstructured data points daily, extracting accurate information and providing insights that insurers depend on for critical decision-making.

• This represents a challenge that the industry has yet to effectively tackle, and you will engage in cutting-edge issues that demand creativity and ambition. We are a small team where individual contributions significantly impact both our technology and business outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• Demonstrate hustle and resilience; you excel in your craft and are relentless in your pursuit of excellence.

• Take complete ownership of your projects and drive them to completion with minimal oversight.

• Communicate proactively by identifying blockers, asking the right questions, and keeping stakeholders informed.

• Embrace experimentation: you’re comfortable testing ideas, measuring outcomes, and quickly iterating on unsolved problems.

• Possess strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.

• Have experience working with LLMs in production and understand the requirements for deploying them at scale.

• Familiarity with AWS and serverless technologies (such as Lambda and EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments is essential.

• Proficient in Python (our primary technology stack), though we welcome strong candidates from other object-oriented programming backgrounds.

• Comfortable working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.

• Enthusiastic about tackling challenges that others find difficult.

• Bonus: Experience with document pipelines and processing large volumes of data.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience level.*

• Significant equity options package.

• Collaborate with an ambitious, intelligent, global, and enjoyable team to revolutionize a $7 trillion global industry.

• 20 days of paid time off (PTO) each year.

• Global team offsites.

• 100% coverage for PPO medical, vision, and dental for individuals and their families.

• Stipend for healthy living/gym expenses and mobile phone bills.

• Continuing education credits available.

• 401(k) plan with employer contributions, regardless of employee contributions.